For #WomensHistoryMonth, check out Lorri Glover's #2025SHA presidential address in the February 2026 JSH:
"Reimagining the American Revolution: Southern Women's Wars for Independence"
muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
NEW in the February 2026 JSH: The #2025SHA @thesouthernsha.bsky.social presidential address, "Reimagining the American Revolution: Southern Women's Wars for Independence," by Lorri Glover
muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
A post- #2025SHA thank you to the @thesouthernsha.bsky.social Committee on Teaching for sponsoring a special session at the SHA conference in St Pete Beach on the JSH forum "Teaching about the South"
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55697
Benedetta Carnaghi presents a paper entitled “Persecuted Satirists: How Dissident Laughter Could Get You in Trouble, 1922-1945” at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The panel on “Courts and the State” with Benedetta Carnaghi, Antonio Grilli, and Stephen Stillwell at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association in St. Petersburg, Florida.
A photo of the sunset in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Friday, November 7, 2025.
As a 1st-time presenter at @thesouthernsha.bsky.social’s Annual Meeting, I thoroughly enjoyed the conference and our panel on “Courts and the State” with Antonio Grilli & Stephen Stillwell. St. Pete treated us to a beautiful sunset after a long day of work #2025SHA
With a book talk later this evening, I am catching up on some campus history work and grading. #2025SHA was a very affirming break with other historians. Back to reality. #amwriting #campushistory
Back to reality this morning after a fantastic trip to St. Pete's for
#2025SHA! Had the chance to catch up with some amazing friends and hear about some fascinating new work. See y'all in Atlanta!
sky, sea, and beach view of St Pete Beach Florida
Thank you, St Pete Beach! #2025SHA @thesouthernsha.bsky.social
Ready for even more new scholarship in the history of the South? You can find JSH submission guidelines here: thesha.org/submissions and can always see what's current and forthcoming in the JSH here: thesha.org/contents
Congratulations! #2025SHA
David Doddington also published research related to this book project in the JSH: "Old Age, Mastery, and Resistance in American Slavery" (Feb 2022): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
5 panelists seated at a table in front of an audience
Packed house for a fantastic panel on campus histories at #2025SHA
At the Southern Historical Association conference in St Pete Beach, FL? Check out sessions with our authors @profmsinha.bsky.social, Matthew Lockwood, Michael Honey, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, and Deborah Gray White. And stop by our booth #19 to pick up beach reading! @thesouthernsha.bsky.social #2025SHA
Congratulations to Edda L. Fields-Black, winner of the Tom Watson Brown Book Award for COMBEE. #2025SHA
Congratulations, SHA president Lorri Glover @thesouthernsha.bsky.social on your presidential address. We look forward to publishing it in the February 2026 issue of the Journal. #2025SHA #forthcoming
thesha.org/contents
Lorri Glover giving her presidential address "Reimagining the American Revolution: Southern Women’s Wars for Independence" #2025SHA
The SHA is delighted to present Randal Hall with the distinguished service award for his years of dedicated service to the JSH and to the association #2025SHA
The William F. Holmes Award is given for the best paper presented at the annual meeting by a graduate student or junior faculty member. This year’s winner is Young In Jang, “‘She Should be Bound out of the County’: Poverty, Labor, and Crime of Free Black Children in Antebellum Maryland.” #2025SHA
The Simkins Award is given for the best first book by an author in the field of southern history over the preceding last two years. This year’s winner is Evan Nooe for his new book Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South #2025SHA
The Jack Temple Kirby Award is given for the best journal article in southern agricultural and environmental history published over a two-year period. This year’s winner is Bert Way for “The Grass Problem: Agrostology, Agriculture, and Environmental Transformation in the New South.” #2025SHA
The Frank and Harriet Owsley Award for the best book in Southern history published last year is awarded to David Doddington for Old Age and Americam Slavery #2025SHA
The James A. Rawley Award for the best book on secession and/or the sectional crisis published over the preceding two years is awarded to Seth Rockman for Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery #2025SHA
The C. Vann Woodward Award for the best dissertation written on Southern history in the preceding year is awarded to Jewel Parker #2025SHA
#2025SHA Awards presentation is beginning now!
book cover of BETWEEN KING COTTON AND QUEEN VICTORIA: HOW PIRATES, SMUGGLERS, AND SCOUNDRELS ALMOST SAVED THE CONFEDERACY, by Beau Cleland
Beau Cleland, BETWEEN KING COTTON AND QUEEN VICTORIA (University of Georgia Press)
And in the JSH: “Sustaining the Confederacy: Informal Diplomacy, Anglo-Confederate Relations, and Blockade-Running in the Bahamas” (Feb 2023):
muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
#2025SHA
book cover of FRACTURED FREEDOMS: RECONSTRUCTING CENTRAL LOUISIANA, by David T. Ballantyne
David T. Ballantyne, FRACTURED FREEDOMS: RECONSTRUCTING CENTRAL LOUISIANA (@lsupress.bsky.social)
And in the JSH: “Remembering the Colfax Massacre: Race, Sex, and the Meanings of Reconstruction Violence” (Aug 2021): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
#2025SHA
book cover of JIM CROW IN THE ASYLUM: PSYCHIATRY AND CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, by Kylie M. Smith
Kylie M. Smith, JIM CROW IN THE ASYLUM: PSYCHIATRY AND CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH (@uncpress.bsky.social)
In the JSH: “No Medical Justification: Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama’s Psychiatric Hospitals, 1952–1972” (Nov 2021): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
#2025SHA
